Austria's new coalition between the conservatives and the far-right was sworn in on Monday, rekindling an alliance from the early 2000s which prompted unease around Europe. Here is a brief history of ...

This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a ...

Adolf Hitler’s notorious childhood home in Braunau am Inn, Austria, has an unscheduled date with a wrecking ball, if the Interior Ministry gets its way. The Austrian government is pushing a plan to ...

The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria's parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. It is the ...

MODERN AUSTRIA turned 100 on November 12th and, as a present, gave itself a history museum. Its first exhibition includes a towering wooden horse that sports the brown cap of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung ...

Austria’s highest court ruled Friday that presidential elections narrowly lost by a right-wing candidate must be repeated after his party claimed gross irregularities in the absentee vote count. The ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, which entered government in December, announced on Tuesday is was setting up a panel of people to investigate its history, a bid to distance ...

And yet Hans Breuer doesn't seem particularly quaint as he sits with tour buddy and author Sam Apple in the Starbucks across from the Galleria. Under the lightest prodding, 51-year-old Breuer launches ...

My essay is a reflection on how my work developed and how my discovery of Robert Musil was decisive for my thinking. I concentrate primarily on Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture: ...

A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a ...